This year I have approximately 40 trainings scheduled. This is a wonderful challenge as I will be teaching volunteers, CNA's, front desk personnel, community members, medical students, residents, physicians, chaplains, and executive leaders. Each person walks into the training with a different culture, background, experiences, training and level of expertise, but there are a few common themes I'd like to share.
1) One theme is the mentality or belief that Trauma Informed Care (although understood) allows a "pass" to behavior that others view as draining to society.
* Trauma Informed Care doesn't allow a "pass". The goal is to set appropriate boundaries while practicing what I have coined as scientific compassion. We understand the science behind ACEs, provide education, practice with deep knowledgeable compassion, while setting boundaries on behaviors that can harm the individual or a group, setting goals for the individual and the group and providing tools to build resiliency to meet those goals.
2) The other theme is a hesitancy to learn about the science and statistics of ACEs from those that can make the most difference (Medical Clinicians)
* For reasons that I can't explain in a post, physicians are slowly coming on line but are in the back of the pack with Trauma Informed Care.
3) Hospitals have yet to understand the connecting force between Trauma Informed Care and community health and resilience, not making TIC a priority and still using the antiquated term patient centered care. Although patient centered care has been beneficial it is a Band-Aid on a deep community/national/global wound.
My challenge this year is to address and change the above, to teach people scientific compassion with boundaries, goals and tools, to educate medical clinicians on the importance of their knowledge and actions, and last but not least to push for hospitals to grow beyond patient centered care within the hospital and make trauma informed care a community resilience priority.
The first opportunity for the Forsyth community to grow through these challenges will be on February 25th. 4:30 to 6:00 at Wake Forest Baptist Health (WFBH) in the Sticht Center - Hubbard Learning Center.
Please join us to hear how a WFBH provider (Rachel Zimmer) and community leader (Eric Mathis) are interconnected (see attached). These two very unique speakers that have their own work and efforts but how do these efforts come together to address adversity and build community resilience?
If you plan to attend, please send a private message.
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